A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 07/07/15 / 2015-07-07 11:13:40 / July 7, 2015 @ 11:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -179.9447° West, latitude -24.6313° South, depth = 507.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 507.5 km (315 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20002vq5. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002vq5. The temblor was reported at 23:13:40 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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